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Alumni: what's one memory from Mastery CS -Shoemaker Campus that still sticks with you?
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Enrollment
722
High
STATE 738
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MASTERY CS-SHOEMAKER CAMPUS·NCES 420014500944
Mastery CS - Shoemaker Campus
5301 Media Street, Philadelphia, PA 19131 · (267) 296-7111 · Philadelphia County
GRADES 07–12HIGH11-CITYCHARTERTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL722 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 11% of Pennsylvania public high schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Pennsylvania public high schools
Student : Teacher
13.8:1
53 FTE teachers
STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
719 students
STATE 75%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 7 | 95 | 13% |
| Grade 8 | 121 | 17% |
| Grade 9 | 118 | 16% |
| Grade 10 | 136 | 19% |
| Grade 11 | 130 | 18% |
| Grade 12 | 122 | 17% |
Student demographics
20%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
STATE 59% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
20.5%
PA avg 51.1% . -7.6pp since 2023
Math
9.4%
PA avg 43.0% . +3.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 21 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 9 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores are down about 8 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 20.5% | 9.4% |
| 2023-24 | 28.1% | 5.6% |
% Proficient or Advanced, all students and all tested grades.
Source: PSSA + Keystone. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
21.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
34.9%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-13.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 21% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 35% typical for Pennsylvania schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Pennsylvania's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Mastery CS - Shoemaker Campus
Mastery CS - Shoemaker Campus's state test result (21.0% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mastery CS - Shoemaker Campus this school | 722 | 99.6% | 21.0% |
| Philadelphia Electrical & Technology CHS Philadelphia | 629 | 97.8% | 22.2% |
| School of the Future Philadelphia | 569 | 98.4% | 12.9% |
| Mastery CS-Pickett Campus Philadelphia | 929 | 97.5% | 21.1% |
| KIPP DuBois CS Philadelphia | 523 | 99.4% | 22.9% |
| King Martin Luther High School Philadelphia | 527 | 100.0% | 8.5% |
Matched among Pennsylvania high schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Mastery CS - Shoemaker Campus ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Philadelphia County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 21.0% | #527 of 576 | #32 of 57 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 9.4% | #559 of 626 ▲ 21 | #37 of 67 ▲ 10 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 20.5% | #595 of 626 ▼ 15 | #58 of 67 ▼ 9 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 722 | #261 of 713 | #20 of 70 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.8:1 | #285 of 601 | #8 of 65 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 20.1% | #376 of 604 | #47 of 65 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 99.6% | #124 of 619 | #24 of 67 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -6.5% | #247 of 373 | #23 of 35 |
Ranked against other public high schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
722
-59 (-8%) vs 2020
+7% since 2010-11, when it was 676
Student : Teacher
13.8:1
was 15.3:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 722 | 52.5 | 13.8:1 | 100% (719) |
| 2023-24 | 742 | 51.5 | 14.4:1 | 100% (739) |
| 2022-23 | 782 | 52.5 | 14.9:1 | N/A |
| 2020-21 | 781 | 51 | 15.3:1 | 100% (778) |
| 2017-18 | 772 | 49.8 | 15.5:1 | 99% (768) |
| 2015-16 | 743 | 48 | 15.5:1 | 100% (743) |
| 2010-11 | 676 | 47 | 14.4:1 | 71% (483) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Mastery CS - Shoemaker Campus.
Since 2017-18: students down 6% (772 to 722); teachers up 5% (49.8 to 52.5).
About Mastery CS - Shoemaker Campus
Among the schools in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is Mastery CS - Shoemaker Campus, a mid-sized high school. The school teaches grades 7 through 12 and enrolls 722 students.
The local education agency for Mastery CS - Shoemaker Campus is Mastery CS-Shoemaker Campus.
At Mastery CS - Shoemaker Campus, 89% of students are Black. The school is also 5% Native American, 3% multiracial, and 2% Hispanic. That is higher than the 39% Black share among all Philadelphia County residents. The diversity index for Mastery CS - Shoemaker Campus is 20%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
There are about 13.8 students for every full-time-equivalent teacher at Mastery CS - Shoemaker Campus, which has 52.5. High schools in Pennsylvania average 12.8:1, 1.0 fewer students per teacher than here. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at Mastery CS - Shoemaker Campus is about 100%.
On the allk12 Grade, Mastery CS - Shoemaker Campus lands at D, ahead of 11% of Pennsylvania public high schools.
The school's average proficiency rate across its state test results is 21.0%. For its free or reduced-price lunch share, the predicted value is 34.9%.
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Philadelphia County show that the median household earns about $61,953 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 35%, and about 17% of people live in poverty. Philadelphia County has 309 public schools with about 182,005 students, including Mastery CS - Shoemaker Campus.
A public school about 0.1 miles away, Heston Edward School, is the closest to Mastery CS - Shoemaker Campus. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. Its average proficiency rate of 21.0% is above the 16.3% average for nearby schools.
Federal records code the school's setting as City: Large. Mastery CS - Shoemaker Campus is run as a public charter school.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, Mastery CS - Shoemaker Campus had a net loss of 59 students, or 8%. By 2024-25, the school had 13.8 students per teacher, compared with 15.3 in 2020-21.
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Philadelphia County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,579,706
Census ACS
Median income
$61,953
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
35%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
17%
Below federal line
Schools in county
309
182,005 students
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Frequently asked questions
About Mastery CS - Shoemaker CampusHow large is Mastery CS - Shoemaker Campus?
Mastery CS - Shoemaker Campus enrolls approximately 722 students in grades 07-12.
Is Mastery CS - Shoemaker Campus an elementary, middle, or high school?
Mastery CS - Shoemaker Campus is a high school covering grades 07-12.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Mastery CS - Shoemaker Campus?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Mastery CS - Shoemaker Campus is approximately 13.8:1 (53 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Mastery CS - Shoemaker Campus?
Mastery CS - Shoemaker Campus reports a student body of 0% White, 2% Hispanic, 89% Black, 0% Asian, 3% Two or more.
What district is Mastery CS - Shoemaker Campus in?
Mastery CS - Shoemaker Campus is part of Mastery CS-Shoemaker Campus.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.